Troll pedals

Back in 2022 I was a poor student who wanted a delay pedal. I found that kits where cheaper, and I thought probably fun to build it myself. Having some prior experience with a soldering iron it went well, and ever since I have had a love/hate relationship with soldring pedals. It is so tiny, everytime I finish one I tell myself I do not not want to do this again. Then some time goes and I miss it. So here are some pedals I have build through the years. Most from the last 2 years. I have been working a little in a guitar shop, and a friend encouraged me to build a few for sale. They are built from full kits or PCB. These last years I have had an obsession with Moonn Electronics. They make PCBs of alot of obscure and noisy stuff. Things I won't know how sounds before I build them. Check out Moonn Electronics

Current projects over at Troll Pedals

A scaled down version of Ecological Collaps, a pedal containing Fred Briggs circuit Invading Cannibal Ladybird. I found the delay to be superflous to me needs. It was mostly the oscillation that I found uniqe and useful for my experimental music. My though is to build one with only the oscillation distortion part of the circuit. The hugh box was really cool but unpractical for transportation.

Bazz fuss and Buzz box, by Christian Hemmo, are two well known circuits in the DIY community. I built my self a Buzz Box with two leftover transistors and a salvaged germanium diode. It makes a good fuzz sound with a interesting buzzy trebly character. The fuzz only has a volume knob, and having a preconicived notion that a fuzz needs two knobs for symmetry, I want to add a second pot. I tried to wire up a bias control for the first transistor, but that was not so exciting. I therefor decided to add a tone control. It is the "Stupidly wonderful tone control". I'm going to try out some diffrent resistors and capacitators to find a result that sounds pleasing.

A circuit the sounds like a not very convincing, but charming approximation of the sound of surf chrashing against the shore. A standalone soundmaker, and something you can play guitar into. It going to be an attempt to build one of those PT2399 as fuzz/noise source circuits into a sort of filter and hooking up a LFO to something.

Completed pedals

Tidsvrengern AKA Time distorter The Caspar electronics Echo Bender. On PCB by Moonn Electronics. Sold.

Verzerrer AKA The make it worse This is a copy of the east german circuit Trickverzerrer by Böhm/Klingenthal. Build on the Sojus 31 PCB from Moonn Electronics. I refeer to it as Forværrer. It roughly translates to "make it worse", to paraphrase Captain Picard.

Metadiss The Mean Queen circuit and PCB from Moonn Electronics. Really did give Black Metal sound on a gentle, I really don't want anyone to hear me volume. Sold.

Bronx Cheer A circuit from DIY legend Tim Escobedo. The Bronx Cheer is a sort of filter fuzz, where a transformer and diode network is somehow shaping the envelope and tone of the input sound. I sounds fuzz, sort of synth filter sweep, sort of wha wha. Well, I just had to build it to find out. There are not many sound clips or information to find on this circuit. I built it on a PCB from generalguitargadgets.com

Digilog Digilay This was the first pedal I built. It was a kit from generalguitargadgets.com. I really wanted an echo pedal, and though if I have patience it will probably go well, and it did. ANd since I built it, I was able to fix it once my poor work started to need maintanence after a few years. I had this pedal for around 10 years, but I never really liked how it sounded on guitar and with a band. It always felt to loud or quiet in the mix. It sounded wonderfull with my Casio keyboard and synthesizers. The sort of low fidelity digital sound worked great with electronic timbres. This coat of paint is from a make over the box recived when I decided to sell it. I figured I had enough delay pedals, and I built another circuit based on the PT2399 chip. I sold that one as well. But its sounds are still on many great recordings I made for me to reminisce.

Vrengt hippy This is a Shin-Ei FY-2 circuit. The buzziest of the fuzziest. I don't really know what more to do with it than play Blues Theme on it.